Poetry Forms

The haiku ____________.

• is a Japanese poem that originated in the 17th century.

• is a Japanese poem of five lines with seven syllables in each line.

• focuses on nostalgia and beauty.

• is a Korean poem that emphasizes nature.

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Traditionally ballads are written in ___________.

• couplets

• tercets

• octaves

• quatrains

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Which is a characteristic of a villanelle?

• It is a variation of the sonnet.

• It is traditionally considered a nineteen line poem.

• It does not rhyme.

• It deals with only abstract concepts.

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The sestina

• originated in France in the 1200s.

• has six six-line stanzas, often with a three-line epilogue.

• includes the repetition of specific words.

• All of the above

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An elegy is

• a poem that requires elegant repetition.

• a poem memorializing someone recently deceased.

• an ode to nature.

• a form that requires strict adherence to a metrical pattern.

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An ode is

• like an epigram but with elegant language.

• always about nature.

• always made up of four quatrains.

• often elevated in style or manner and written in varied meter.

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________ is a poetic device used to address absent or nonliving objects as if they were present or alive.

• Alliteration

• Chiasmus

• Apostrophe

• Metonymy

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"I must be cruel to be kind." – Hamlet, William Shakespeare

This is an example of __________.

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Sonnet

• Allusion

Consists of 14 lines and was popular in the Latin Middle Ages.

• Lyric

• Ode

• Sonnet

• Elegy

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__________ consists of this rhyme scheme: abba abba cdecde.

• Shakespearean

• Spenserian

• Petrarchan

• Alexandrine

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